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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Samsung's Galaxy S24 lineup includes Google's AI models Gemini Pro, for Notes, Voice Recorder, and Keyboard apps, and Gemini Nano, for Google Messages and more — Gemini, Google's cutting-edge generative AI model family, is coming to Samsung's new flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S24.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S24 with a 6.2" display and the Galaxy S24+ with a 6.7" display, both larger and brighter, starting at $800 and $1,000, respectively — Samsung's Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus don't have the bigger screen or 5x telephoto camera of the more expensive Galaxy S24 Ultra, nor do they have its stylus.
More: Android Police, Samsung Newsroom, CNET, Dexerto, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, ZDNet, Business Insider, Lifewire, Thurrott, Gearburn, Android Headlines, Redmond Pie, Android Central, Windows Central, Nikkei Asia, Wall Street Journal, TalkAndroid.com, Engadget, Digital Trends, Sam Lover, Pocket-lint, and Wccftech
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the Galaxy S24 Ultra, with a new titanium finish, a 6.8" 1440p display, a 50-megapixel camera with 5x zoom, shipping on January 31 from $1,299 — For several years running, Samsung's S-series Ultra has been that device, and the company is going just as big with the Ultra for 2024.
More: The Verge, ZDNet, Engadget, Gizmodo, Samsung Newsroom, CNET, PhoneArena, T3, MobileSyrup, PetaPixel, SlashGear, and nextpit. X: @lanceulanoff
| Billy Steele / Engadget: |
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 with pulse oximetry will be banned in the US again from Jan. 18, after an appeals court denied Apple's request to pause the ban — The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 with blood oxygen features will be banned from being sold in the United States again … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google introduces Circle to Search, a set of new gestures for searching from anywhere on Android, available on Galaxy S24 devices and Google's Pixel 8 and 8 Pro — Alongside Samsung's launch event today, Google announced a new way to search on Android phones dubbed “Circle to Search.”| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android Auto will soon reflect the design elements, like wallpaper and icons, of Samsung Galaxy phones, and offer AI chat summaries, relevant replies, and more — Amidst the flurry of Galaxy S24 announcements, Google also announced a handful of new AI features for Android Auto.
More: PCMag, Barron's Online, Engadget, Android Police, Android Authority, Forbes, TechCrunch, Android Central, The Verge, Business Post, T3, and Pocket-lint
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A recording of the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked “Galaxy AI is coming” event at the SAP Center in San Jose, California — #GalaxyAI is coming.Join us at #SamsungUnpacked, on January 17, 2024.To view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer you'll need: • Most recent ve...
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| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
Internal memo: YouTube is restructuring its creator management teams, including consolidating various sports, media, film, and TV teams into a single team — YouTube's partnerships side is undergoing its first corporate restructuring in a decade-one that'll see changes to the creator management … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Netflix is not planning to launch a native Apple Vision Pro app or allow its iPad app on the platform, and says users can watch Netflix on the web browser — Netflix Inc. isn't planning to launch an app for Apple Inc.'s upcoming Vision Pro headset, marking a high-profile snub of the new technology …
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Threads: @chancehmiller. Mastodon: @AnnemarieBridy@mastodon …. X: @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google plans to tweak search results to give comparison websites more prominence, including a new unit of links for such websites, to comply with the EU's DMA — Google will tweak online search results to give comparison sites more prominence, the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday …
More: The Keyword, The Messenger, OSnews, Fortune, Android Central, Business Post, Search Engine Land, The Verge, MSPoweruser, 9to5Google, TNW, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, and Euractiv. X: @lutherlowe
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Notion debuts Notion Calendar, a free app for macOS, Windows, iOS, and the web, with optional Notion integration, after acquiring calendar app Cron in June 2022 — Does the world need more calendar apps? That's the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion …
More: Notion, Engadget, The Verge, TestingCatalog, Thurrott, and Fast Company
| Venkat Eswarlu / MSPoweruser: |
Google updates Chrome's Incognito disclaimer after a privacy settlement, saying that Incognito mode “won't change how data is collected” by Google and others — As Google agreed to pay $5 billion for settlement over tracking users' activity in Chrome Incognito mode … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail PixieFail, a set of nine vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware from five top suppliers that let attackers in a network infect devices with malware — PixieFail is a huge deal for cloud and data centers. For the rest, less so. — UEFI firmware from five …
More: Quarkslab's blog, HotHardware, iTnews, and US-CERT
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| Siobhan Roberts / New York Times: |
Google DeepMind details AlphaGeometry, created by AI researcher Trieu Trinh and others to solve Olympiad geometry problems at nearly a human gold medalist level — Watch out, nerdy high schoolers, AlphaGeometry is coming for your mathematical lunch. — For four years, the computer scientist … | Wired: |
Researchers describe a GPU vulnerability that allows attackers to exfiltrate data from local memory on some devices with Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and other chips — Patching every device affected by the LeftoverLocals vulnerability—which includes some iPhones, iPads, and Macs—may prove difficult.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Filing: Apple seeks $73.4M in legal fees from Epic, including a 10% discount since Epic prevailed on one of 10 counts, after SCOTUS declined to hear the appeals — Apple wants Epic Games to pay $73.4 million in legal fees after Apple won the antitrust case brought against it by the North Carolinian games maker.
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Fujitsu says it has a “moral obligation” to compensate hundreds of UK postal employees wrongly prosecuted from 1999 to 2015 due to bugs in its Horizon software — Watch: Fujitsu ‘truly sorry’ for role in Post Office prosecutions — Fujitsu Europe's boss has admitted the firm has a …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Sources: Amazon plans a paid, new AI-powered Alexa by June 2024, tentatively called Alexa Plus, but internal politics and technical issues plague the project — - Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant. — The new plan would use an upgraded, AI-powered version of Alexa.
More: The Information, Neowin, Liliputing, and The Verge
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